Configuring Personal Gmail to send as your Wharton Address

These directions will allow your personal Gmail account to send as your Wharton Address in the From field of an email.

Note: This will only work for students with an active Wharton account because Google requires authentication to an active account. Once you have graduated and your Wharton email account has been closed, this option will no longer work.

Log into your Google@Wharton account, go to the Less Secure Apps page, and make sure it's set to Turn on.

Log into your Personal Gmail and choose the Gear icon.

Choose Settings => Accounts tab.

In the 'Send mail as:' section choose Add Another Email Address You Own.

If the Name: box is empty, enter your full name.

In the Email Address box, enter the following: UserName@wharton.upenn.edu

Click Next Step.

Make sure the Treat as Alias option is checked. Click Next Step.

Enter the Following information:

SMTP.gmail.com

UserName@wharton.upenn.edu

Wharton Password

Note: you must authenticate using the UserName@wharton.upenn.edu address

Click Add Account.

Look for a verification message from Gmail in your email account. The message should contain a confirmation link. Click that link and you will now be verified.

Go back to Gmail and you will see that your Wharton address is now verified.

If you unforwarded your Wharton email you can now go back into SPIKE and change the forwarding back to Gmail.

For students with an active Wharton account: if you send an email from your personal account with the Alumni alias, recipients will see it coming from your Wharton account until your Wharton account is deactivated as a default. An easy fix to this is by adding your Alumni address to your Wharton account and setting it as the default "send as" address.